Employment Arbitrage

Interesting bit from Onion News Network:

More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

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Denialism blog readers, especially those at academic institutions that have/are considering outsourcing email, may be interested in my essay on UC Berkeley's migration to Gmail.  This is cross-posted from the
One of the justifications for outsourcing (firing productive U.S. workers and shipping the jobs overseas) is that it will lower costs. Then there's reality, in which firing productive U.S. workers and shipping the jobs overseas actually costs more.
Every now and then, I take a moment to read my unsolicited commercial email before binning it. (Note to eMarketers: This moment is generally used to mock and deride the goods and/or services offered in the unsolicited commercial email.
Since I got in late last night from a microbiome-palooza, I'm outsourcing today's post to Bill Moyers, who discusses the (repeated) downfall of single-payer healthcare: